China How To: hosting your website in China

Want to sell a product or target visitors in China, in which case you will need a China server for your website. Whilst there are hundreds of hosting platform with a data center in USA, Europe, and Asia, you have limited choices in China.

If you are looking to do business in China you really need to host your site locally to ensure speed of user access, Regulatory compliance, better search engine rankings and to ensure that your site is withing the Great Chinese Firewall.

Lastly be aware that hosting in China is more expensive than in another region.

The list below commprises the main hosting providers with data centers in China.

A word of Warning: Unfortunately most of the following mentioned sites are in the Chinese language. So be ready to use a translation tool if Chinese is not your language.

1. AWS

AWS (Amazon Web Services) has collaborated with a local partner to offer cloud services. Currently, AWS is available in the following locations.

Beijing

Ningxia

You won’t see all the products offered in China as you may see in AWS global. However, it got sufficient list of products to fit from small to enterprise level of applications.

If you are looking for a vast range of products and cost-effective solutions, then AWS would be a good choice.

2. Sino Hosting

One of the popular one out there offers shared hosting, VPS, and dedicated servers. Sino got servers in the following locations.

Shanghai

Beijing

Changsha

Hong Kong

You can get it started with shared hosting from less than $10 per month. Sino provides one-click software installation like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, etc.

Support is available in English and provides ten days refund for shared hosting.

3. Alibaba Cloud

Need more coverage in Mainland China?

Probably Alibaba Cloud has got the highest number of data center locations in China.

Hangzhou

Shanghai

Qingdao

Beijing

Zhangjiakou

Shenzhen

Hong Kong

If you are not from China and need support on ICP application, then Alibaba Cloud would be a lifesaver.